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Pre Season 2013
- Thread starter Jordinho
- Start date
Brilliant Lloris. I get as much of a buzz from that as a goal
chicken_badge
Gudni Bergsson
No mate this is tottenham. Watch us manage to blow a top 4 finish even from here.
Third place play off, 6-0 up against a Chinese team with 2 mins left. We'll finish fifth , nailed on....
Townsend has got a rawness about him which means he seems to create more than Lennon right now. Lennon is a much better all round player now
Bet if Bale played we would have won 1-0 in the 89th minute with a super Bale goal
Crawley
Board Legend
Very impressed with Andros. Has the enthusiasm that seems to have slipped from lennon.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Agree just such a shame he is english if he was foreign he would be much better supported on here.
Nigeyman
Chris Armstrong
good that we seem to getting fitter and put in a better performance than the other day. Townsend did well....nice pass for defoe near the end who wasn't tall enough to header it in. pleased with performance not carried away - to more important pre-season games on their way.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Siggy was leagues above Dembele.
His last couple of performances have made the Sandro-Dembele-Paulinho triumvirate seem less of a given.
His last couple of performances have made the Sandro-Dembele-Paulinho triumvirate seem less of a given.
The Moonlit Knight
Banned
Decent run out and good fitness for some of the lads. That is all pre-season is about, the results and even performances at this stage are unimportant.
The Moonlit Knight
Banned
Not sure why. They play different positions in midfield.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Now we'll have 3 CMs, any combo of our 6 CMs (Sandro, Dembele, Paulinho, Siggy, Holtby and Carroll) is really viable. They are all versatile enough not to need specific positions within the three.
Starting Siggy over Dembele just means that Paulinho maybe drops a tad deeper, towards his national team position.
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The Moonlit Knight
Banned
IF we are going to play 4-3-3 then there are three different midfield roles. Anchor role (whether purely defensive or creative), the all rounder is a central midfielder who breaks up attacks over the pitch and can also create but usually starts deeper and the third one is the box to box will be attacking, one or both of goalscoring, and creative.
Anchor Role : Sandro, Parker Huddlestone, Livermore
Centre Mid: Dembele, Parker, Carroll, Livermore
Box to Box : Paulinho, Sigurdsson, Holtby
Those are the players vying for each of those roles. Only when players are injured (or the opposition considerably weaker) will you see two of those box to box midfielder start in the central areas in a game at the same time. More likely you'll see one of them start wide but Sigurdsson and Holtby are unlikely ever to play the anchor or centre mid roles.
